Caffeinated Vitals: My Doctor Asked for My Numbers
What happens when a doctor gives instructions to an arguably neuro-spicy middle-aged developer and said developer can’t find an app that suits them?
They write their own of course.
Continue ReadingShowing items from projects
Caffeinated Calendar: A Calendar App Born Out of Frustration
I’ve been self-hosting my own calendar infrastructure for a while now. CalDAV, Radicale, the whole stack. It works. But the one thing I could never get right was the client. Every calendar app I tried either wanted me to route everything through their servers, locked me into a single ecosystem, or just didn’t handle shared calendars well.
So I built one.
Continue ReadingGoogle Protocol Buffers, where have you been all my life?
So two weeks ago I discovered Google’s Protocol Buffers, and I have to ask, where have you been all my life?
The project I was working on requires speed and scalability, both vertically and …
Continue ReadingNew Myth Frontend - Almost Perfect
A few months ago we moved into a new place with a much smaller living room, it didn’t have nearly enough room for a full size computer case in the room. So it was time for a new, much smaller frontend for our MythTV setup.
Size, noise, and being able to “hide” it are the primary …
Continue ReadingPHP Annotations are a Bad Idea
I’ve been writing code in PHP for a long time now, both for my own projects and as a freelancer. I’ve seen well written code and truly horrific code and everything in between. Much of the work I’ve done for my personal projects has been using a framework that I’ve built and …
Continue ReadingMigrating from GFS to GlusterFS
This week I started the process of migrating from GFS to GlusterFS. The hardware running my GFS cluster is older and I decided it was better to replace it than continue maintaining it.
Background Information
Back in 2003 I needed to find a storage solution that was fast, reliable, and …
Continue Reading